“I have a hairdresser back home I use through my mom’s lady,” Sharp said. “I guess I don’t trust anybody else to cut it. I mostly go to her every time.”

Hairdresser — now there’s a term you don’t hear football players reference every day.

“I would say I have someone who cuts my hair,” Bassett said with a wince. “I would never say I have a hairdresser or stylist or anything like that. I’ll never forget, in high school, my mom called in and scheduled me a hair appointment. Her boss teased me and he said, ‘Cooper, boys don’t get hair appointments, they get haircuts.’

“So that was my masculine lesson in hair. I would never call anyone my stylist or hairdresser.”